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#117 - Canada's Playing Hard to Get: Will Trump Put a Ring on It? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Oh, Canada. Should Canada become the 51st state of the United States of America?
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  Trump, President Trump is being very persistent in his pursuant of Canada.
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  And Canada is playing really hard to get, it seems like.
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  But should Trump continue to pursue this relationship? That seems like it's not going to happen.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. This is Evolution. let's dive into this. I love Canada.
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  I really do love Canada. And I was looking up Canada's national anthem.
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  And so there is a lot of history and pride with Canadians as any country.
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  I mean, I mean, it does seem like any, any people that come to the United States,
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  they always carry that, that badge of honor of their, where they came from and
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  there'll be flying their own flags.
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  And even though they're sometimes trying to escape where they came from to get
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  here, they still have that love of their country.
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  There are so many things that go into this dynamic of Canada and the United
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  States. Could it be a good idea?
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  Whatever you think on it, Trump is very dead set on this happening.
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  And I see it as almost his viewpoint of the if I can say the right word, Louisiana Purchase.
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  That was a monumental event in American history in that deal going down.
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  I mean, and just like just getting land in itself is always tends to work out for any country.
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  Us taking on Alaska, us getting Hawaii and all the different places, it's good to have land.
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  That's why the constitution, it started off like the pursuit of land.
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  We've changed it to the pursuit of happiness, but it started off the pursuit of land.
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  But Canada is not just land. I think of Canada and I think of it,
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  they got so much going for them and they got so many great resources,
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  but they got so many great people.
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  I think of any person that's out there that is in Hollywood or that is in in
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  show business, they always turn out to be Canadian.
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  They're always from Canada, always.
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  And I'm always like, dang, they're Canadian.
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  And I mean, that's cool. That's cool. But I wish I didn't have to say that.
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  I wish that every funny actor and every awesome actor that is out there or actress,
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  I didn't have to say, man, why couldn't they have been born in the United States?
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  There's something that they got in the water up there that they just produce
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  the funniest, hilarious people imaginable.
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  I go to the movie, The Proposal, if you've seen that, with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock.
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  And this is very apropos for this situation we got going on,
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  except it's all flipped.
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  Ryan Reynolds in the movie, he's American from Alaska.
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  But in real life, he's Canadian. Sandra Bullock, on the other hand,
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  in the movie, she's Canadian.
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  But in real life, she's American. It has nothing to do with the plot at all.
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  And I'm just reading into it.
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  But in itself, he has to make her, to be able to stay in the United States,
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  he has to go and propose to her so that she is a citizen of the United States
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  and so she doesn't get deported. It's an hilarious movie.
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  But in this in this dynamic we got going with
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  president trump and canada and
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  now we have the new prime minister and i'm gonna
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  show a short clip of that in a second but he he is in all seriousness that trump
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  can be he is on his knee proposing for the world to see he he is saying never
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  say never canada and it might take many proposals to get to get that ring on the finger but it's,
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  it could happen. And I think it could happen.
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  But in the movie, Ryan Reynolds, he has to propose to Sandra Bullock to get
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  her to stay in the United States. And it's hilarious.
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  Everything's flipped on its head. But in the end, he gets the girl. He gets the girl.
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  And I might've spoiled it for everyone who wants to go out and there to see it.
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  But I mean, if you love those type of movies, you pretty much expect it.
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  And everything in that movie is all like kind of twisted. She's kind of mean and all that.
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  Is that what's going on here with Canada? They just, it's all topsy-turvy and
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  nothing makes sense in this world, but nothing makes sense in this.
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  Canada did not see this coming.
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  Nobody saw this coming, but it's the best thing in the world that would be for
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  the United States, I believe.
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  And we're just going to have to convince Canada that it's the best thing for them as well.
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  So in this video, so we have the new prime minister of Canada sitting down with
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  Trump, and he starts it off with, some things are not for sale,
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  but Trump is going to say, never say never.
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  As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale.
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  That's true. We're sitting in one right now, Buckingham Palace that you visited as well.
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  That's true. And having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the
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  campaign last several months, it's not for sale, won't be for sale ever.
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  But the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together.
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  And we have done that in the past.
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  And part of that, as the president just said, is with respect to our own security.
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  And my government is committed for a step change in our investment in Canadian
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  security and our partnership.
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  And I'll say this as well, that the president has revitalized international
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  security, revitalized NATO, and us playing our full weight in NATO.
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  And that will be part of the issue.
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  And they have, I must say, Canada is stepping up the military participation
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  because, Mark, you know, they were low and now they're stepping it up.
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  And that's a very important thing.
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  But never say never. Never say never. Never say never.
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  Never say never. Could this actually happen? I think it's going to take some time.
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  And I think the pressure that Donald Trump is putting on Canada,
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  and he's going to, we can't get inside Trump's mind, and he is a poker player.
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  He is always never showing his cards.
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  He never shows what his end game is, really. He says it in a number of different
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  ways of what he wants to put out there and make people think, it seems like.
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  But I think he really does want Canada.
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  He really does. He's serious about this. The same way he's serious about Greenland.
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  Because they are, would be very huge allies.
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  And if they become a part of the United States, I would say they got the best
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  thing going for them. The best thing going for them.
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  And like, will this eventually kind of lead on to the UK?
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  Can we bring some, can we bring down the barriers that once time,
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  like I said, the UK, Britain, you know, that, because that would be the next thing on the horizon.
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  Can, is there a way that these lines can come down?
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  And we're not pursuing everyone. We're not just saying everybody,
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  but I'd say Trump is for, for countries that have a lot to bring to the table
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  and who we really care about and who we really want to get involved with.
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  And he's going to put a lot of pressure on him and on this, on their,
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  on their country and on their economy.
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  And I think the reason he's throwing up these tariffs because he wants to see
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  them kind of do it themselves and see if they can get along because I think
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  that they're going to struggle.
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  They're going to struggle as a number of other countries in the world are going
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  to struggle if they don't play ball with the United States.
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  But we're not asking everyone to be our wife that is out there.
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  We're only asking a select group, a select few and Canada is one of them.
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  One of them and they would be a huge for the United States.
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  Absolutely huge. But what do you think? Do you think this would be a good idea?
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  Do you think this is possible?
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  Could this happen? What would change if it did happen?
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  Would we be, would we be biting off a lot more than we could chew?
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  Would we, because a lot of people in Canada, they're not conservative, it seems like.
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  In a lot of ways they have very, they have the ways they do things, socialized medicine.
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  They have like the way they do help their health system. And I'm okay with,
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  I think I would be okay with that.
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  I'm good with that. So I think we could bring certain elements that are great
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  over there and certain elements that we have and bring them together.
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  You know, they wouldn't immediately change or upend them, but they would have a voting power.
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  They would have a voting power, a huge voting power, you could say.
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  The 51st state, are you kidding me? That would be Texas, Alaska,
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  California on steroids.
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  Because, I mean, I'm just looking at it from a map perspective.
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  Canada is freaking huge. It's huge. So we're not just saying let them become
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  the next 51st to 60 states, like let's break them all apart.
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  No, the 51st state, that would be massive. And I think it would be awesome.
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  So Canada, keep playing hard to get, whatever, that's the way you got to be.
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  But I think you should come on board. I think you should join the party.
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  But this is life.
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  Guys got to pursue their women. guys got to pursue who they want,
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  who they love, the courting, the, you know,
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  dating and all that, you know, I was just thinking about this morning,
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  you know, should we always immediately divulge everything that we are when we're
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  on our first date and show everything, you know, show all the,
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  the deep recesses of our mind and of our heart and all the stuff we got going on?
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  Probably not, probably not. But things that, Canada, just like a woman,
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  you might come along and you might want to try to make us better.
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  You might want to change that man, you know?
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  So make us better. Make us better, Canada.
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  All right. We'll leave it at that. If you've liked this video,
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. I do this every day, 7 a.m.
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  Central Time. Have a great day, everyone.